Ukrainian officer shot dead in Crimea

Russian soldiers shot Ukrainian officer, who was unarmed, with a machine gun in Crimea.

Head of the Crimean regional center of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine Vladyslav Seleznev wrote about it on his Facebook page.

"Ukrainian officers were unarmed," he writes.

According to Seleznev, a conflict between the Ukrainian officers and Russian soldiers has broken in 22:50 on Sunday at the 5th floor of the dormitory, where the Ukrainian military personnel of the Saky airbase lived. Major Stanislav Karachevsky was killed. Another Ukrainian officer, Captain Artem Yarmolenko, was taken away by the investigation department of the Russian Federation in Sevastopol.

"The officers have by two children each. It was planned that April 9, Karachevsky and Yarmolenko had to depart to the mainland of Ukraine,” Seleznev added.